On-Vehicle Road Configuration Identifying Device
First Claim
1. An on-vehicle road configuration identifying device mounted on a vehicle, which identifies the road configuration near said vehicle, said device comprising:
- a traveling path detecting section that detects the traveling path of each subject vehicle where other vehicles near a user'"'"'s vehicle are considered as subject vehicles;
a certainty level calculating section that calculates for each subject vehicle a level of certainty that the subject vehicle is traveling along a road according to a previously established evaluation method; and
a road configuration predicting section that predicts a road configuration, based on the assumption that traveling paths detected by said traveling path detecting section are paths along a road, as the road configuration near the user'"'"'s vehicle for a subject vehicle having a high certainty level calculated by said certainty level calculating section.
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Abstract
A road configuration identifying device properly identifies the road configuration around a user'"'"'s vehicle. A reliability level indicating whether the traveling paths of other vehicles in an area behind the user'"'"'s vehicle which are detected by a radar positioning system, which are obtained by tracking other vehicles using an other vehicle tracking section, and the traveling path of the user'"'"'s vehicle are traveling paths along the same road configuration is calculated by using the velocity v, acceleration dv, angular velocity dθ, and the operation state of a direction indicator or the like of each vehicle. Then, the road configuration indicated by traveling paths having a high reliability level is predicted as the road configuration in the area behind the user'"'"'s vehicle. A warning device evaluates the possibility of other vehicles colliding with the user'"'"'s vehicle based on the road configuration of the area behind the user'"'"'s vehicle predicted by the road configuration predicting section and the behavior of other vehicles tracked by the other vehicle tracking section, and warns of the possibility of collision if such another vehicle is present.
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23 Claims
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1. An on-vehicle road configuration identifying device mounted on a vehicle, which identifies the road configuration near said vehicle, said device comprising:
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a traveling path detecting section that detects the traveling path of each subject vehicle where other vehicles near a user'"'"'s vehicle are considered as subject vehicles; a certainty level calculating section that calculates for each subject vehicle a level of certainty that the subject vehicle is traveling along a road according to a previously established evaluation method; and a road configuration predicting section that predicts a road configuration, based on the assumption that traveling paths detected by said traveling path detecting section are paths along a road, as the road configuration near the user'"'"'s vehicle for a subject vehicle having a high certainty level calculated by said certainty level calculating section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A road configuration identifying method for identifying the road configuration near a user'"'"'s vehicle, said method comprising:
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detecting the traveling path of at least one subject vehicle near the user'"'"'s vehicle; calculating a certainty level for each subject vehicle that the subject vehicle is traveling along a road according to a previously established evaluation method of evaluating the state of the subject vehicle; and predicting as the road configuration near the user'"'"'s vehicle a road configuration associated with a subject vehicle having a high calculated certainty level. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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